Rewriting U.s. History

November 3, 1985

THE PRESIDENT of the local organization of the Daughters of the American Revolution said she would try to get school books rewritten to identify an obscure sea battle off Florida as the last fight of the American Revolution. Marguerite Brown said she would ask her national organization to push for the change after a retired Titusville doctor announced he had discovered a 203- year-old skirmish between American and British ships off Cape Canaveral. Harold Gillig said he had proof that the battle occurred March 10, 1783, two years after the currently recognized last battle in Yorktown.